2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) disrupts early morphogenetic events that form the lower reproductive tract in female rat fetuses

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-98

  Hurst, Christopher H ^a   Abbott, Barbara ^b   Schmid, Judith E ^b   Birnbaum, Linda S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo p dioxin (TCDD); Lower reproductive tract; Mesenchyme; Mullerian ducts; Rat

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; KERATINIZATION; MESENCHYME; MORPHOGENESIS; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; VAGINA EPITHELIUM;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, ERBB-1; GENITALIA, FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMININ; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MESODERM; MESONEPHROS; MULLERIAN DUCTS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3; URETHRA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036148429     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/65.1.87     Document Type: Article

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